Claire Whitney
- Birthday
- May 6, 1890
Bio: A former stock company actress who had toured vaudeville with a popular "playlet," blonde, aristocratic-looking Claire Whitney entered films in 1909 with the Biograph company in New York City. By 1912, she was starring for Madame Alice Guy-Blaché at Solax in New Jersey and in 1914, appeared with Stuart Holmes in Life's Shop Window, the very first feature film to be… More Bio: A former stock company actress who had toured vaudeville with a popular "playlet," blonde, aristocratic-looking Claire Whitney entered films in 1909 with the Biograph company in New York City. By 1912, she was starring for Madame Alice Guy-Blaché at Solax in New Jersey and in 1914, appeared with Stuart Holmes in Life's Shop Window, the very first feature film to be released by Fox. Already a supporting actress by 1916, she appeared opposite Theda Bara in both East Lynne (1916} and Under Two Flags and then settled into a long career playing mostly professional women: lawyers, matrons, nurses, and so on. She retired in 1950. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi
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Filmography
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Dancing in the Dark (1949)
- Board Member
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Ladies of the Chorus (1949)
- Mrs. Windrift
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Oklahoma Badlands (1948)
- Agatha Scragg
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Christmas Eve (Sinner's Holiday) (1947)
- Dr. Bunyan's Wife
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Smooth as Silk (1946)
- Woman
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